Word: seymour
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Nofziger dismissed his crime as being "kind of like running a stop sign." However, it carries a possible prison sentence of six years. Ironically, another independent counsel, Whitney North Seymour, had viewed the Ethics Act as "riddled with loopholes." Instead of using it against Michael Deaver, another Reagan aide turned lobbyist, Seymour successfully prosecuted him in December for lying about his lobbying...
Deaver's prosecutor, Whitney North Seymour Jr., also refused the parallel appointment. Noting that last week's decision had invalidated the court appointment that is Seymour's sole source of authority, Deaver's lawyers quickly filed a motion to vacate the jury verdict and throw out the charges against their client, who faces a possible 15-year prison sentence. For Deaver, says Philip Lacovara, former counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, the court's decision is like the "arrival of the 7th Cavalry." But Custer's 7th Cavalry was wiped out at Little Bighorn, and whether Deaver will...
...insurance industry is reserving judgment. Traffic accidents cost the U.S. an estimated $80 billion a year, and if collisions, injuries and claims increase, so will premiums. "The fatality count will be a good barometer," says Harvey Seymour of the Insurance Information Institute, an industry public relations organization. "If it continues to increase, someone is going to pay. Sixty-five miles per hour has a price...
...stand, where he would have been subjected to withering cross-examination, Miller won not-guilty verdicts on two key counts. Moreover, Deaver and others are challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 law that established independent counsel. Two of Deaver's three guilty verdicts came on charges of lying to Seymour's grand jury that was investigating him for possible ethics-law violations. If the independent-counsel law is overturned, Seymour's work would be thrown out, and Deaver would be liable for retrial only on a single count of falsely testifying to a congressional committee. Given the evidence against Deaver...
Deaver faces a sentence of up to 15 years and a $22,000 fine at his sentencing Feb. 25. After the trial, Seymour blasted the climate of "too much loose money and too little concern in Washington about ethics." Lobbyists "will continue to undermine public confidence in government," said Seymour, "until lawmakers, business and community leaders and individual citizens decide to cry 'Enough...